Well done! Discovering this piece proves you must be pondering over your options, and if it's re-training you're considering that means you've taken it further than most. Can you believe that just one in ten of us consider ourselves fulfilled in our working life - but the majority will take no corrective action. We implore you to liberate yourself and do something - those who do hardly ever regret it.
We'd politely request that before you start any study program, you run through some things with a mentor who can see the bigger picture and can make recommendations. They can assess your personality and help you sort out a role to fit you:
* Are you happier left to your own devices at work or is being part of a team more important to you?
* Do you have a preference which area you could be employed in? (In this economy, it's vital to get it right.)
* Having completed your retraining, would you like your new abilities to take you through to retirement?
* Do you want your retraining to be in an industry where as far as you can see you will be able to work until your pension kicks in?
The most significant market sector in Great Britain to tick all of the above boxes is the IT industry. There's a need for more skilled people in this market, - take a look at any jobs website and you'll discover what we mean. Don't let people tell you it's all techie people looking at their computerscreens all day long - it's much more diverse than that. Most of the people in the industry are just like you and me, with well paid and stimulating jobs.
Traditional teaching in classrooms, with books and manuals, can be pretty hard going sometimes. If this describes you, check out study materials which feature interactive and multimedia modules. Research has consistently verified that an 'involved' approach to study, where we utilise all our senses, is proven to produce longer-lasting and deeper memory retention.
Start a study-program in which you'll receive a selection of CD or DVD ROM's - you'll be learning from instructor videos and demo's, with the facility to use virtual lab's to practice your new skills. It's wise to view some of the typical study materials provided before you sign on the dotted line. What you want are videoed instructor demonstrations and a variety of audio-visual and interactive sections.
It doesn't make sense to go for purely on-line training. Connection quality and reliability varies hugely across your average broadband company, it makes sense to have disc based courseware (On CD or DVD).
Most people don't even think to ask about a painfully important area - how their company actually breaks down and delivers the courseware sections, and into how many bits. Individual deliveries for each training module piece by piece, according to your own speed is the normal way of receiving your courseware. This sounds logical, but you must understand the following: What could you expect if you didn't actually complete everything at the required speed? Sometimes their preference of study order doesn't work as well as an alternative path could be.
An ideal situation would be to have all the training materials packed off to you immediately; the complete package! Then, nothing can hinder your capacity to get everything done.
So many training providers only look at the plaque to hang on your wall, and completely avoid what it's all actually about - which is of course employment. Always begin with the final destination in mind - don't make the vehicle more important than the destination. It's a sad fact, but the majority of trainees kick-off study that often sounds spectacular from the syllabus guide, but which delivers a career that doesn't satisfy. Just ask several university leavers for a real eye-opener.
It's well worth a long chat to see the exact expectations industry will have. What accreditations they will want you to have and in what way you can gain some industry experience. It's definitely worth spending time setting guidelines as to how far you wish to go as it will often force you to choose a particular set of exams. Before you embark on a particular training programme, you'd be well advised to chat over individual job requirements with an experienced industry professional, in order to be sure the training course covers all that is required.
Huge changes are coming via technology over the next generation - and it only gets more exciting every day. Computing technology and interaction through the internet is going to dramatically affect the direction of our lives over future years; to a vast degree.
Let's not forget that the average salary in the IT sector in Great Britain is noticeably more than average salaries nationally, therefore you will most likely receive significantly more once qualified in IT, than you'd get in most other industries. Because the IT market sector is still emerging at an unprecedented rate, the chances are that the requirement for professionally qualified and skilled IT workers will continue actively for quite some time to come.
It can be a nerve-racking task, but finding your first IT job is often relieved by training colleges, through a Job Placement Assistance service. Because of the great shortage of skills in Great Britain today, it's not necessary to place too much emphasis on this feature however. It's not as difficult as you may be led to believe to land employment once you're properly qualified.
Help with your CV and interview techniques may be available (if not, see one of our sites for help). Make sure you polish up your CV immediately - not after you've qualified! Getting your CV considered is far better than not even being known about. A decent number of junior positions are offered to people (who've only just left first base.) If you don't want to travel too far to work, then you may well find that a specialist locally based employment agency can generally be more appropriate than some national concern, for they're far more likely to be familiar with what's available near you.
In a nutshell, if you put the same amount of effort into securing a job as into training, you won't find it too challenging. A number of students inexplicably spend hundreds of hours on their course materials and then just stop once qualified and would appear to think that businesses will just discover them.
We'd politely request that before you start any study program, you run through some things with a mentor who can see the bigger picture and can make recommendations. They can assess your personality and help you sort out a role to fit you:
* Are you happier left to your own devices at work or is being part of a team more important to you?
* Do you have a preference which area you could be employed in? (In this economy, it's vital to get it right.)
* Having completed your retraining, would you like your new abilities to take you through to retirement?
* Do you want your retraining to be in an industry where as far as you can see you will be able to work until your pension kicks in?
The most significant market sector in Great Britain to tick all of the above boxes is the IT industry. There's a need for more skilled people in this market, - take a look at any jobs website and you'll discover what we mean. Don't let people tell you it's all techie people looking at their computerscreens all day long - it's much more diverse than that. Most of the people in the industry are just like you and me, with well paid and stimulating jobs.
Traditional teaching in classrooms, with books and manuals, can be pretty hard going sometimes. If this describes you, check out study materials which feature interactive and multimedia modules. Research has consistently verified that an 'involved' approach to study, where we utilise all our senses, is proven to produce longer-lasting and deeper memory retention.
Start a study-program in which you'll receive a selection of CD or DVD ROM's - you'll be learning from instructor videos and demo's, with the facility to use virtual lab's to practice your new skills. It's wise to view some of the typical study materials provided before you sign on the dotted line. What you want are videoed instructor demonstrations and a variety of audio-visual and interactive sections.
It doesn't make sense to go for purely on-line training. Connection quality and reliability varies hugely across your average broadband company, it makes sense to have disc based courseware (On CD or DVD).
Most people don't even think to ask about a painfully important area - how their company actually breaks down and delivers the courseware sections, and into how many bits. Individual deliveries for each training module piece by piece, according to your own speed is the normal way of receiving your courseware. This sounds logical, but you must understand the following: What could you expect if you didn't actually complete everything at the required speed? Sometimes their preference of study order doesn't work as well as an alternative path could be.
An ideal situation would be to have all the training materials packed off to you immediately; the complete package! Then, nothing can hinder your capacity to get everything done.
So many training providers only look at the plaque to hang on your wall, and completely avoid what it's all actually about - which is of course employment. Always begin with the final destination in mind - don't make the vehicle more important than the destination. It's a sad fact, but the majority of trainees kick-off study that often sounds spectacular from the syllabus guide, but which delivers a career that doesn't satisfy. Just ask several university leavers for a real eye-opener.
It's well worth a long chat to see the exact expectations industry will have. What accreditations they will want you to have and in what way you can gain some industry experience. It's definitely worth spending time setting guidelines as to how far you wish to go as it will often force you to choose a particular set of exams. Before you embark on a particular training programme, you'd be well advised to chat over individual job requirements with an experienced industry professional, in order to be sure the training course covers all that is required.
Huge changes are coming via technology over the next generation - and it only gets more exciting every day. Computing technology and interaction through the internet is going to dramatically affect the direction of our lives over future years; to a vast degree.
Let's not forget that the average salary in the IT sector in Great Britain is noticeably more than average salaries nationally, therefore you will most likely receive significantly more once qualified in IT, than you'd get in most other industries. Because the IT market sector is still emerging at an unprecedented rate, the chances are that the requirement for professionally qualified and skilled IT workers will continue actively for quite some time to come.
It can be a nerve-racking task, but finding your first IT job is often relieved by training colleges, through a Job Placement Assistance service. Because of the great shortage of skills in Great Britain today, it's not necessary to place too much emphasis on this feature however. It's not as difficult as you may be led to believe to land employment once you're properly qualified.
Help with your CV and interview techniques may be available (if not, see one of our sites for help). Make sure you polish up your CV immediately - not after you've qualified! Getting your CV considered is far better than not even being known about. A decent number of junior positions are offered to people (who've only just left first base.) If you don't want to travel too far to work, then you may well find that a specialist locally based employment agency can generally be more appropriate than some national concern, for they're far more likely to be familiar with what's available near you.
In a nutshell, if you put the same amount of effort into securing a job as into training, you won't find it too challenging. A number of students inexplicably spend hundreds of hours on their course materials and then just stop once qualified and would appear to think that businesses will just discover them.
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